Comments on: 1978 Called -- It Wants its Newspaper Back

1978 Called -- It Wants its Newspaper Back

VicNebulous — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:47:55 -0800

The Philadelphia Inquirer's final frazzled days...

By: Horace Rumpole

Horace Rumpole — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:53:33 -0800

I think you probably want to link here, no?

By: Joe Beese

Joe Beese — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:56:11 -0800

From the comments... Newspapers have less than maybe at best 10 years of life. I was a journalist for 30 years - worked at the Inquirer 20 years - I would never ever ever for a $1 million go back!! If this was the quality of writer they employed...

By: mannequito

mannequito — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:16:40 -0800

I don't get the expression " an economy gone south". Seems to imply the financial system is vacationing in Puerto Vallarta.

By: Floydd

Floydd — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:48:15 -0800

I don't get the expression " an economy gone south". Seems to imply the financial system is vacationing in Puerto Vallarta. ¿por qué no? The peso is so cheap....

By: greekphilosophy

greekphilosophy — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:16:00 -0800

I can see the Inquirer building from my apartment, and it's lovely when they light it up at night. Ahhh, the gleam of burning newsprint... Actually, a pretty building is not an awful legacy to leave. Most people leave significantly less than that behind when they go. Someone stick a fork in print journalism, please. I think it's done.

By: Nick Verstayne

Nick Verstayne — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:17:55 -0800

See also the Seattle Post Inteligencer, another paper on the way out (at least in the print version). There will be more.

By: leahwrenn

leahwrenn — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:21:26 -0800

Here's the thing. I read the Inquirer every day...but I do so online, for free. If it wasn't available for free, I might not read it, but I might also be a subscriber.

By: filthy light thief

filthy light thief — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:55:33 -0800

I don't get the expression "an economy gone south". Seems to imply the financial system is vacationing in Puerto Vallarta, and it came back with some tropical disease, leading to it's slow demise. The last part is usually left off, to avoid frightening the more sensitive readers and alienating the travel and leisure advertisement money.

By: filthy light thief

filthy light thief — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:56:36 -0800

Here's the thing. I read the Inquirer every day...but I do so online, for free. If it wasn't available for free, I might not read it, but I might also be a subscriber. So you're saying they should be off-line only? Also, do you click on the ads online?

By: Molesome

Molesome — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:07:02 -0800

I didn't get anything out of that I didn't already see in The Wire season 5, and there was a distinct lack of Omar.

By: desuetude

desuetude — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:04:47 -0800

Here's the thing. I read the Inquirer every day...but I do so online, for free. If it wasn't available for free, I might not read it, but I might also be a subscriber. I used to subscribe. I wanted news about the actual city in which I live, the Inky didn't really deliver that. And then its yen for the suburbs got even stronger, and I gave up. I tried to read it online for awhile, too, but increasingly over the past few years, I couldn't find much actual news there either.

By: vito90

vito90 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:25:38 -0800

Super interesting, thanks for posting.